CHR 589752 – Poa lindsayi Hook.f.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 589752
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
29 May 2017
Database record updated:
26 February 2018
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Poa lindsayi Hook.f.
Determiner:
KA Ford
Identification date:
2018-02-08 (Verbatim: 8 Feb 2018)
Preferred name:
Poa lindsayi Hook.f.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Cyperales
Family:
Gramineae
Identification type:
Determination
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Poa imbecilla G.Forst.
Determiner:
E. Edgar
Identification date:
1996-03-23 (Verbatim: 23 Mar 1996)
Preferred name:
Poa imbecilla Spreng.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
Spikelets a good match. Most are 5-flowered.
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Lake Tekapo, Plantation
Verbatim locality:
Lake Tekapo, Plantation
Verbatim collector:
B.P.J. Molloy
Standardised collector:
Brian P. J. Molloy
Verbatim date:
24 Oct 1995
Start date:
1995-10-24
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Notes:
Habit: Tufted or tussock grass with closely packed light green, erect, fine leaves - soft to touch. Sheaths straw coloured. Flower culms to 30 ± cm. 3-4 leaves/nodes (swollen, dark brown). Culm leaves up to 7 cm. Others longer. Culm leaves V-shaped - rounded, fine prickles towards base on outside auricles - ? swollen areas. Culms - channelled dark green and light green, some very fine prickles on ridges. Branchlets very prickly - sinuous when young. Florets 3-6 compressed flowers, reddish-green. Glumes uneven. Lemmas prickly on margins and veins - no awn. Anthers .5-.6 mm, 3 green young, purple mature. Stigmas 2 - ovary already swollen. (Clearly selfing). Palea prickles on margins - bifurcate at tips. See diagram.
Other collection events
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